Category Archives: Reflections

“sometimes I hear screaming like a child and wake up to find it’s me” – Stephen Fitzsimons

The trail unfolded, winding through the brush into the hemlock and hardwood forest. Adjusting the pack for weight balance, the journey triggers past memories from the flood of sensory inputs that surround. The feeling of somehow being “right” with the universe launches an inner narrative, subtly at first, but steadily increasing as elevation activates visual awareness mingled with contemplative notions.

The ability to coax story and message, uniquely visual, from the multitude of sensory stimulus, confronts the creative expression influences. The welling of frustration, as is often during the inaugural state, slowly recedes as the inner screaming is replaced with tranquility once the separation of earthly presence resolves towards spatial references and an ability to persuade and permit visual language to engage the mind.

Pausing for whatever amount of space capacity “feels” honest, this presence develops mental narratives that swirl the subconscious. Concluding that nothing conjures from this particular viewpoint, an unwinding occurs and the subjective sense begins the revolution towards new considerations, often inches from the past, either horizontally or vertical, possibly both.